"Dang, dang, dang," the bells of the Forbidden City kept ringing, and the person ringing the bells was Emperor Chongzhen himself.
This is the bell that summons the ministers to the palace, but at this time it is like ringing the death knell for a dynasty.
The Changui Gate in the outer city has been opened by the eunuchs who were waiting for the thieves.
A large number of thieves swarmed in and entered the southern suburbs of the inner city.
Chongzhen spent half the time knocking on the incense sticks, but no ministers came.
A few days ago, there were not even a shadow of those loyal and patriotic people in the court who opposed the southward movement, were impassioned and wanted to live and die with the capital.
Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian was in a trance at this moment.
The high pressure and anxiety for more than ten years made him actually suffer from mild depression.
If Wang Chengen hadn't supported him beside him, he would have sat down on the ground at this moment.
After a long silence, Zhu Youjian still asked without giving up: "Chengen, still no one has come?"
Wang Chengen had a bitter look on his face and shook his head.
Zhu Youjian suddenly burst into laughter and said loudly: "The king is not the king of the subjugation of the country, but the minister is the minister of the subjugation of the country."
Then, two cold lights shot out from his eyes, and he said to Wang Chengen: "Go, take the queen, concubines, and princesses."
Let’s call them together.”
After a while, Queen Zhou, Concubine Yuan, Princess Changping, Princess Zhaoren and a group of concubines were brought to Zhu Youjian.
Everyone already understood what was going to happen, and they all burst into tears.
Only the six-year-old Princess Zhaoren didn't know what had happened, and she observed everyone with a childish and surprised look.
Zhu Youjian first ordered the death of all the concubines, then wiped away the tears on Queen Zhou's face with his hands, and cried: "At this time of national crisis, you are the mother of a country, and you must never be humiliated by thieves.
You should die for the country."
"The queen replied: "I have been with your Majesty for eighteen years, and your Majesty has not heard a word from me until today.
Now that your Majesty has ordered my concubine to die, how dare I not obey?"
After that, she was taken into the inner hall.
"Hurry, we must reach the capital as quickly as possible."
Xia Hua no longer knew how many times this was the soldier who urged the Guards to drive.
The horses pulling the four-wheeled chariot were running wildly on the wilderness.
The Guards soldiers carried on the chariot were well-trained, and the chariot had shock-absorbing springs, but they were knocked unconscious. .
When the convoy entered Gyeonggi Province, bandit troops often set up blocks to intercept it.
Some bandit soldiers had not even had time to change out of their Ming army uniforms.
For these, the motorcade roared past.
Ahead, another dozen thieves gathered at the intersection.
Seeing a convoy approaching, he waved a flag made of torn linen from a distance to signal the convoy to stop.
When the convoy approached, the draft horses were still galloping with no intention of stopping.
The group of thieves blocking the road hurriedly evaded, but one person could not dodge in time.
He was caught under the wheel on the spot and was crushed into two pieces by the iron hoop wheel.
The thieves looked at the rolling convoy in surprise, and it took them a long time to recover.
Several crossbowmen bent their bows and set arrows desperately, trying to shoot the vehicles and horses whizzing by.
With the bang of gunfire, more than a dozen thieves fell on both sides of the road.
Only two or three people survived by crawling into the bushes beside the road.
Finally, Xia Hua, who was at the front of the motorcade, saw the tall tower of Qihua Gate in the east city of Beijing.
The defenders outside Qihua Gate were uniformly dressed in black helmets, black clothes, and black armor.
It was obvious that these people were at least the main force of the Shun Army.
At this time, Qihua Gate had just been dedicated to the Shun army by Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo who guarded the gate.
The various units of the Shun Army outside the city still had to move into Beijing one after another.
In order to facilitate entry and exit, the city gates were not closed and the suspension bridge was not pulled up.
There are just a few rows of elk antlers placed in front of the city gate, arranged in a staggered manner.
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It is impossible for Xia Hua's chariot to drive straight in.
Seeing a long line of vehicles coming from a distance, the soldiers of the Shun Army thought it was their own baggage arriving and made a gesture to signal the vehicles to stop for inspection.
The chariot that Xia Hua was riding in slowly stopped when it was twenty steps away from them, and the vehicles behind it also stopped one after another.
"Brother, which battalion do you belong to?
Please take out the waist badges and tokens on this vehicle."
The leader who spoke and the other soldiers kept looking at these strange-looking four-wheeled chariots with their eyes.
Most of the people who got off the chariot were dressed as civilians.
Everyone was wearing bamboo hats and coarse cloth with patches of various colors.
They didn't even wear armor.
The only strange thing is that each of them is carrying a very sophisticated-looking gun.
Without saying a word, Xia Hua took out a fully loaded Colt revolver and fired.
The leader's hat was violently lifted off, and his whole body fell straight backwards.
The guards around Xia Hua also pulled out their short guns and shot at the soldiers at the city gate checkpoint indiscriminately.
About ten Guards soldiers had already quickly bypassed the antlers and rushed into the doorway, firing their short guns in random directions.
After the guards at the rear jumped from the carriage, they aimed and shot at the Ming army at the top of the city who had just surrendered not long ago, almost one shot at a time.
Amidst the banging gunshots, all the Shun troops inside and outside the city gate were wiped out in an instant.
The "new soldiers" at the top of the city were so frightened that they fled backwards.
There were also some Guards soldiers who threw the antlers of the resisting horses into the moat as quickly as possible to clear the road.
Before the soldiers could completely occupy the city tower, Xia Hua left twenty chariots and more than a hundred men to garrison the Qihua Gate and the city tower, and continued to speed towards the Forbidden City with the remaining chariots.
Hurry, hurry, be sure to get there, don't let anything happen.
The anxious Xia Hua thought silently in his heart.
The chariots stopped in the square of Donghua Gate in Miyagi City and formed a defensive circle.
Before they could finish, Xia Hua eagerly rushed into the palace with two hundred guards.
At the same time, Zhang Jinyan, the Minister of War, and Wang Dehua, the Duke of Dongchangchang, presented the Zhengyang Gate to the Shun army, and Li Zicheng came to the palace from this gate.
Xia Hua almost ran all the way to the West Palace.
The sight in front of him made his blood freeze immediately, and his whole body felt like it was immersed in an ice cave.
Princess Changping fell in a pool of blood, and in the palace were a row of concubines who committed suicide by hanging from the beam.
Xia Hua hugged Zhu Ainao in his arms, only to find that a large piece of flesh had been cut off from her left cheek, and there was an unfathomable wound on her left shoulder blade, with blood still pouring out.
Half of the entire wide left sleeve was dyed red.
Zhu Yasuo opened her eyes slightly, saw it was Xia Hua, and weakly uttered two words: "It's you."
"He did it.
Where is he now?"
Xia Hua asked angrily.
"No, it's not my fault.
Hurry, save my mother."
Zhu Auao fainted at this point.
Xia Hua screamed "Military doctor" loudly, and a battalion-level military doctor rushed over to check the concubine's wound and suture and bandage it.
Several soldiers carried out two "female corpses" that had just been removed from the hanging beam from the inner hall.
They were still warm when touched, and they quickly performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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